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LUCK IN PURCHASING HORSES How Australian Owner Purchase Famous Eurythmic for 9 Mere Song. Under the caption "Fortunate Purchases a Sydney paper points out that Dame For tune smiled upon the West Australian sportsman, E. Lee Steere, when he becamel the owner of Eurythmic, which stands sixth; in the list of great winners on the Australian; turf, with 84,455 to his credit. How Mr Steere purchased Eurythmic furnishes good illustration of luck, the article shows; in the following excerpt: "In the autumn of 1918 Mr. Lee Steere was; a visitor to Sydney, intent on buying a year- ling, but, being unable to wait after the f irsij days sale, he left a commission with another, West Australian sportsman, marking six in" a catalog from which his purchase was to be chosen. However, each of the six-was discarded by the man entrusted with the commission and he bought for Mr. Lee Steere a chestnut colt by Eudorus from Bob Cherry, which was secured for the moderate outlay of ,550. That colt blossomed into; the brilliant Eurythmic, which won twenty-f eight and a half races, including the Caul- field Cup and the Sydney Cup."
